Sessions Overview 1.What is Post-Modernism? 2.The Power of the Gospel in the Hearts of Post-Moderns 3.Reaching Post-Moderns with the Truth in Love 4.Designing.

Sessions Overview

1.What is Post-Modernism?

2.The Power of the Gospel in the Hearts of Post-Moderns

3.Reaching Post-Moderns with the Truth in Love

4.Designing Church to Disciple Post-Moderns

Apologetics for a Post-Modern World

Today:

How can we design church toEffectively disciple Post-Moderns?

“Wherever life takes you, make disciples of all peoples, then baptize them in the name of God: Father, Son, and

Spirit,and teach them to live by My Commands.

I will certainly be with you as you are doing this.”

- Matthew 28:19-20 (TSV)

Curiosity

Humility

Don’t Play Dead

Eager for Feedback

Self-Deprecating / Good Humored

Tone for Discipling Post-Moderns

“They that deny a God destroy

man's nobility; for certainly man is

of kin to the beasts in his body;

and, if he be not of kin to God by

his spirit, he is a base and ignoble

creature.”

A Helpful Reason for God

Francis Bacon

Focus on Individual Relationships, not Programs

In Programs, program in dialogue/interaction

In Programs, create group participation

Resurrect good-deed-doing (i.e. Service to Community)

Promote the Arts in existing programs and create new

Methods for Discipling Post-Moderns

Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church, Seattle

What Various Groups Make Up the Emerging Church?

Rob Bell, author and creator of Nooma, Michigan

Promo Video for “Love Wins”

John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis

Response to the Liberal Emerging Church